Unit 1

TEXT A What Makes a Global Language

TEXT B The Story of English

Speaking Skills How to Start a Conversation

Unit 2

TEXT A Managers for the 21st Century

TEXT B The Muddle of MBAs

Speaking Skills How to Make Suggestions

Unit 3

TEXT A Engineering

TEXT B Introductions to the Grand Challenges for Engineering

Speaking Skills How to Talk about Likes and Dislikes

How to Give Instructions

Unit 4

TEXT A Images of Public Administration

TEXT B The Spirit of Adam Smith

Speaking Skills How to Make and Respond to Compliments

Unit 5

TEXT A Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech（Ⅰ）

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech（Ⅱ）

TEXT B Sand from Centuries Past;Send Future Voices Fast

Speaking Skills How to Complain

How to Make an Appointment

Unit 6

TEXT A What is a Scientific Theory

TEXT B A Beautiful Mind

Speaking Skills How to Make a Public Speech

Unit 7

TEXT A Our Century...and the Next One

TEXT B Computers Know a Lot about You

Speaking Skills How to Host a Symposium

Unit 8

TEXT A College Pressures

TEXT B Plagiarism Exposed at University

Speaking Skills How to Make a Dinner Speech

Unit 9

TEXT A How"Average"People Excel

TEXT B Civil Disobedience

Speaking Skills How to Make Opening and Closing Remarks

Unit 10

TEXT A Professions for Women

TEXT B The Gift of Maggie

Speaking Skills How to Debate

Unit 11

TEXT A Science and Humanity in the Twenty-First Century

TEXT B The Anthropological Study of Religion

Speaking Skills Research Presentation（Ⅰ）

Unit 12

TEXT A Can Ethics Be Taught

TEXT B The Moral Ambiguity of Looting

Speaking Skills Research Presentation（Ⅱ）

References